Merging bcachefs

Posted Jun 19, 2023 8:07 UTC (Mon) by ballombe (subscriber, #9523)
In reply to: Merging bcachefs by developer122
Parent article: Merging bcachefs

> This again? You realise this decision was made something like 20 years ago, right?

The BSD has used gcc for compiling for 20 years. They are not as hostile to the GPL as you imply.

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Merging bcachefs

Posted Jun 19, 2023 10:44 UTC (Mon) by khim (subscriber, #9252) [Link]

The BSD folks hate GPL with passion. They used GCC because it was “the only game in town” and switched to Clang when it became usable. Same thing as Apple or Google.

For some reason BSD folks like when their code is used by SONY or other companies who contribute nothing back, but hate it when their code is used in GPLed projects and demand that GPLed projects would allow them to get stuff and give it to other proprietary companies on a silver plate. But it's unclear why bcachefs developers have to facilitate that.

And as much as I don't like “freedom fighters” who try to kill proprietary software and hurt end user instead I have even less sympathy for people who try to take free software and turn it proprietary.

Proprietary companies have lots of money and lots of developers. Let them write what they want or need themselves if they don't want to play by rules.